Moonlighting's 2nd episode of season-2 "The Lady in the Iron Mask" will always be my personal favorite despite the fact that the series would eventually create even better shows than this excellent one. Why?
Well, mainly because, I believe it was the first episode of "Moonlighting" that I ever saw, and was absolutely hooked on the show for the next 3-seasons. I was 17-yrs old at the time and had a car, so I was far more interested in maintaining an active teenage social life than anything that was playing on TV.
However, after watching this episode of "Moonlighting", I became a huge fan of the show and couldn't wait to see what wild, crazy, creative mystery romance the writers were going to come-up with from week-to-week.
What I remember most about this episode is that the show begins with Maddie Hays (Cybil Sheppard) breaking-up a fist fight between two male workers shortly after arriving to work at her "Blue Moon' detective agency. Only to discover later David Addison (Bruce Willis) inside of his office sitting at his desk counting piles of money. David is not only aware of the two employees beating each others brains out in the next room, but he's laying bets down on who is going win the fight.
Both David and Maddie banter back-and-forth like Doris Day and Cary Grant for a few minutes over David running a Fight Club office pool out of Maddie's place of business. When suddenly the show takes on a much more intense darker -and kind of creepy - tone after a young woman wearing a veil so thick that it masks her entire face walks into David's office and offers them $5,000 to find her ex-lover who is responsible for destroying her now permanently hidden face.
The mysterious woman claims she just wants David and Maddie to find him so she can give him a message of personal forgiveness, and to let him know that she will always love him. However, shortly after David and Mattie locate the man that completely destroyed the creepy woman's face, the two discover from a local TV news broadcast that the same man has been killed.
So, naturally David and Mattie immediately realize that the woman who hired them to find her ex-lover wasn't being honest about her real motivations for wanting to locate him. That her intentions where not one of forgiveness and unconditional forever love, but to find and murder her ex-lover for what he did to her, and she used David and Maddie to do the long and difficult work of finding the man.
Upon this discovery, the two bickering detectives set out together - at first - to gather enough evidence that will eventually convict the veil covered vengeful woman for murder of her ex-lover. Later however, David and Maddie get into another argument where Maddie expresses her dissatisfaction with having to work with David at her business. David is angry and hurt. So, they both decide to split-up and solve the murder separately, using their own independent methods.
Which later, and with great hilarity, both David and Maddie unaware end-up using the exact same method as the other to secretly gain entry into the woman's hotel room in order to find evidence that will convict the woman of murder. Both David and Maddie disguise themselves as the woman by dressing-up in black dresses with heavy veils covering their faces, so the hotel desk clerk will mistakenly give them a key to the room of the murderess.
Fortunately, there are two hotel clerks working the front desk that night and one clerk gives Maddie the first key, then later another clerk gives David another room key while David is dressed in high heels and a black dress, with a phony wig and refuses to speak to avoid being revealed as a man dressed in women's clothing.
There's also a hilarious scene earlier where a man in the hotel elevator makes a pass at David while he's dressed like the mysterious woman. David responds to the guys advances by punching him out.
Later, David and Maddie accidentally run into each other while hiding inside the closet of the woman's hotel room, then immediately discover that both of them are dressed exactly alike.
What follows after their accidental discovery on one another is one freak'n hilarious madcap conclusion. I mean, just imagine John McClain chasing Hans Gruber down the hallway of a cheap hotel at the end of "Die Hard"..... while both McClain and Gruber are wearing high heels, black dresses and carrying purses. Imagine that, and you have maybe the funniest conclusion to any detective TV series ever. Actually, 'Moonlighting' would go on to have even funnier ending chase scenes in future episodes, but this one was one of their best.
Finally, the show ends on a sweet and romantic note. With both David and Mattie back at the Blue Moon detective agency, sitting alone in their separate offices, each trying to find the words to apologize to one another for the argument that caused them to break-up and go their separate ways on the case.
Suddenly, Maddie appears outside the open door of David's office while he's stretched out on the couch. Maddie cautiously enters the room and with a soft sexy voice tells David that she's pleased to have him as her business partner. Then she leans over and kisses David gently on the cheek. Maddie then slowly turns away to return to her own office, leaving David to ponder over what just happened between them. David Addison then flashes a big smile of satisfaction across his face. End Scene.(roll credits)
Like I said at the beginning of this review, EP-02 of SEA-02 of "Moonlighting" was the 1st episode I ever saw of the series having already missed the first 8-episondes of season-1, including the pilot movie. Then missing the 1st episode of the 2nd season.
While, maybe this wasn't the best episode of the series, it certainly was one of their top 10, maybe even top-5 episodes. And, it certainly was the episode that first made me a huge fan of the series. I give it 9 out of 10 stars.
PS: As of today and for the last few years, this episode along with entire seasons of 'Moonlighting' are available on a certain website where you can post videos and the sites name begins with the word "You". Can you guess the website that I'm referring to?
Well, mainly because, I believe it was the first episode of "Moonlighting" that I ever saw, and was absolutely hooked on the show for the next 3-seasons. I was 17-yrs old at the time and had a car, so I was far more interested in maintaining an active teenage social life than anything that was playing on TV.
However, after watching this episode of "Moonlighting", I became a huge fan of the show and couldn't wait to see what wild, crazy, creative mystery romance the writers were going to come-up with from week-to-week.
What I remember most about this episode is that the show begins with Maddie Hays (Cybil Sheppard) breaking-up a fist fight between two male workers shortly after arriving to work at her "Blue Moon' detective agency. Only to discover later David Addison (Bruce Willis) inside of his office sitting at his desk counting piles of money. David is not only aware of the two employees beating each others brains out in the next room, but he's laying bets down on who is going win the fight.
Both David and Maddie banter back-and-forth like Doris Day and Cary Grant for a few minutes over David running a Fight Club office pool out of Maddie's place of business. When suddenly the show takes on a much more intense darker -and kind of creepy - tone after a young woman wearing a veil so thick that it masks her entire face walks into David's office and offers them $5,000 to find her ex-lover who is responsible for destroying her now permanently hidden face.
The mysterious woman claims she just wants David and Maddie to find him so she can give him a message of personal forgiveness, and to let him know that she will always love him. However, shortly after David and Mattie locate the man that completely destroyed the creepy woman's face, the two discover from a local TV news broadcast that the same man has been killed.
So, naturally David and Mattie immediately realize that the woman who hired them to find her ex-lover wasn't being honest about her real motivations for wanting to locate him. That her intentions where not one of forgiveness and unconditional forever love, but to find and murder her ex-lover for what he did to her, and she used David and Maddie to do the long and difficult work of finding the man.
Upon this discovery, the two bickering detectives set out together - at first - to gather enough evidence that will eventually convict the veil covered vengeful woman for murder of her ex-lover. Later however, David and Maddie get into another argument where Maddie expresses her dissatisfaction with having to work with David at her business. David is angry and hurt. So, they both decide to split-up and solve the murder separately, using their own independent methods.
Which later, and with great hilarity, both David and Maddie unaware end-up using the exact same method as the other to secretly gain entry into the woman's hotel room in order to find evidence that will convict the woman of murder. Both David and Maddie disguise themselves as the woman by dressing-up in black dresses with heavy veils covering their faces, so the hotel desk clerk will mistakenly give them a key to the room of the murderess.
Fortunately, there are two hotel clerks working the front desk that night and one clerk gives Maddie the first key, then later another clerk gives David another room key while David is dressed in high heels and a black dress, with a phony wig and refuses to speak to avoid being revealed as a man dressed in women's clothing.
There's also a hilarious scene earlier where a man in the hotel elevator makes a pass at David while he's dressed like the mysterious woman. David responds to the guys advances by punching him out.
Later, David and Maddie accidentally run into each other while hiding inside the closet of the woman's hotel room, then immediately discover that both of them are dressed exactly alike.
What follows after their accidental discovery on one another is one freak'n hilarious madcap conclusion. I mean, just imagine John McClain chasing Hans Gruber down the hallway of a cheap hotel at the end of "Die Hard"..... while both McClain and Gruber are wearing high heels, black dresses and carrying purses. Imagine that, and you have maybe the funniest conclusion to any detective TV series ever. Actually, 'Moonlighting' would go on to have even funnier ending chase scenes in future episodes, but this one was one of their best.
Finally, the show ends on a sweet and romantic note. With both David and Mattie back at the Blue Moon detective agency, sitting alone in their separate offices, each trying to find the words to apologize to one another for the argument that caused them to break-up and go their separate ways on the case.
Suddenly, Maddie appears outside the open door of David's office while he's stretched out on the couch. Maddie cautiously enters the room and with a soft sexy voice tells David that she's pleased to have him as her business partner. Then she leans over and kisses David gently on the cheek. Maddie then slowly turns away to return to her own office, leaving David to ponder over what just happened between them. David Addison then flashes a big smile of satisfaction across his face. End Scene.(roll credits)
Like I said at the beginning of this review, EP-02 of SEA-02 of "Moonlighting" was the 1st episode I ever saw of the series having already missed the first 8-episondes of season-1, including the pilot movie. Then missing the 1st episode of the 2nd season.
While, maybe this wasn't the best episode of the series, it certainly was one of their top 10, maybe even top-5 episodes. And, it certainly was the episode that first made me a huge fan of the series. I give it 9 out of 10 stars.
PS: As of today and for the last few years, this episode along with entire seasons of 'Moonlighting' are available on a certain website where you can post videos and the sites name begins with the word "You". Can you guess the website that I'm referring to?